BRITISH TRADE
RISE IN EXPORTS SHOWN IMPORTS ALSO HIGHER (Rec 7 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 21. The United Kingdom exports for September were valued at £70,800,000, which is £6,500,000 below those for August. The reduction in the last two months is due to the smaller number of working days the result of the holiday period. The volume of September exports is approximately 91 per cent, of the 1938 volume. It included £3.500,000 for U.N.R.R.A. and N.A.A.F.I supplies. The exports during October are expected roughly to equal the peak figure of £92.000,000 recorded for July. Vehicles at £30,800,000 are the leading group of exports for the third quarter of 1946, which totalled £239,700,000. Taking the volume figure for 1938 as 100, the quarterly export volumes for the last four quarters have risen as follows:—Last quarter of 1945, 55 per cent, first quarter of 1946, 84 per cent., second quarter, 98 per cent., third quarter 104 per cent. The imports for September were £106,100,000 which is £14,900,000-be-low those for August. The value of the imports for the third quarter of 1946 totalled £328,100,000, which is £9,000,000 higher-than for the previous quarter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26290, 23 October 1946, Page 7
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